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How Hiring a Fire Protection Service Boosts Real Estate Value

The Startup Magazine

source ] Hiring a professional fire protection service holds the key to not only enhancing property value but also ensuring the safety and security of your investment. Compliance demonstrates due diligence and adherence to safety standards, mitigating risks and liabilities associated with potential fire hazards.

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8 New Venture Smarts That You Can’t Afford To Ignore

Startup Professionals Musings

Failure to prepare for due diligence. Not doing due diligence on the funding source. You need to complete due diligence on your prospective funders as they complete due diligence on you. Then you have to have evidence to support your request.

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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references. Ethics and the view of personal boundaries should be explored fully. Carry minimal historical baggage.

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10 Keys To Raising Your New Venture Funding Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

In addition to goodwill justified by a great leader and an outstanding team, investors will use their due diligence process to assess the organizational structure and effectiveness as well. The key parameters of this evaluation will always include: Strength of the business culture. Focus on talent and people growth.

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Third-Party Risk Management: What It Is And Why You Need It

YoungUpstarts

Working closely with vendors is beneficial for many companies — for example, it’s cheaper to contract with a security vendor than to hire several new staff members, invest in security cameras and other equipment, and assume the costs of maintaining and replacing that equipment and keeping security positions staffed.

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8 Questions You Should Ask Before You Join A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup should have at least a couple of outside advisors who are not major investors or family members, anxious to talk to new investors and key new hires. These questions are the key ones in every due diligence effort, always done by accredited investors, but almost never done by key employees and new partners.

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Tackling The Talent Gap: Best Practices For Uncovering New Hires

YoungUpstarts

It is harder to diversify if your first few hires are homogenous, so branch out beyond your typical hiring pool to seek out diversity of all types —race, gender, culture, and education. When you think you’ve found the right hire, do your due diligence to ensure it’s a two-way fit. Look to organizations like i.c.

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